Joseph Doria

Joseph V. Doria (28 June 1946-) was Mayor of Bayonne (D) from July 1998 to October 2007 (succeeding Leonard P. Kiczek and preceding Terrence Malloy) and a New Jersey State Senator from 9 June 2004 to 10 October 2007 (succeeding Glenn Cunningham and preceding Sandra Bolden Cunningham). He later went on to become Dean of the Caulfield School of Education at Saint Peter's University.

Biography
Joseph V. Doria was born in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1946, and he became involved with Democratic politics in North Jersey. He was elected to the Bayonne Board of Education in 1975, serving as President of the Board from 1976 to 1979, and as President of the Hudson County School Boards Association from 1978 to 1979. He served for nearly a quarter century in the New Jersey General Assembly, and he went on to serve as Mayor of Bayonne from 2008 to 2007, as a State Senator from 2004 to 2007, and as New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs from 2007 to 2009. In 2009, he resigned as the result of a corruption probe, although he was cleared of all charges in 2011. He went on to become Dean of the Caulfield School of Education at Saint Peter's University.